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My apologies for this issue being late. I’ve been out at the computer fair all of yesterday sourcing for new hardware. This computer, as you know, has been giving me intermittent problems. So it was either get a new one or live with it. Anyhow, how’s your weekend going so far?
Remember the friend I was blogging with last weekend at the Blogathon. Well, we had such a blast and worked so well together that I’m considering getting her involved in my business.
We’re talking over some things this weekend. Nothing’s been firmed up yet. But I should have more next week on how we plan to work together in future.
In our Modern Living article today, find out why you should stop multitasking even tho’ that’s what we’ve programmed ourselves to do so well for so long.
Many of you are getting your kids ready for the new school year. Summer sure did fly, didn’t it? So here are some tips on how to get back into the grind of things.
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We've become a culture of multi-taskers: We apply make-up while driving, talk on our cell phones while shopping for groceries, eat breakfast while watching the news.
We've packed every moment to get the most we can into the minutes we have. But are we really doing ourselves a favor?
Our lives are full of cycles: cycles of the moon, the seasons, sleep, and hunger—all things come in cycles.
These cycles allow us to live without giving thought to life's little details, allowing us to focus on accomplishing our goals. This isn't necessarily a bad thing.
On average, 90 percent of mental processing is unconscious, and about 95 percent of behavior is the result of a conditioned life cycle.
In other words, we do things because we learned to do them in a certain way, and rarely consider whether or not these ways of interacting are helpful and life-enhancing. We just continue within the program of our lives. This is where the problems can begin.
Think of driving to work in the morning. You know the route and follow it easily while you plan your workday.
You know where to exit without reading the signs. Following the correct route is conditioned, just a cycle in your daily routine. So your mind is free to plan.
But think of that same commute on a day when you are wrestling with a thorny problem at work, or having an argument with your spouse on your cell phone.
Are you as safe a driver that day by driving on automatic pilot? Are you as effective in resolving the issues with your work or spouse while navigating traffic? Trying to multi-task in this situation is counter-productive.
Or perhaps one day you are going to the dentist in the morning—something different from your daily routine—but as soon as you hit the freeway your mind goes on commute autopilot.
Your thoughts might be on your plans for the weekend or on an incident at home. The next thing you know, you are zipping past the exit you need to take to get to your destination. Suddenly, you're on your way to the office.
This happens to us all. We engage a life cycle without realizing it, and the unconscious cycle interrupts our conscious plans and takes us in the wrong direction.
Taking the wrong road by taking the road often traveled is a typical example of how our cycling can take control of not only our daily commute, but our life path without our awareness.
So what's the solution? As individuals, as a society, as a culture, we are all busy. There are 24 hours in a day and we feel that they need to be filled with activities: packing the day from dawn to dusk, from everyday work and chores to walking the dog and meeting up for cocktails.
It's as if there isn't enough time any more for all we want to do, and every time we glance at the clock more minutes have slipped away.
When you're feeling anxious or overwhelmed because of the time, you're mind is going into overdrive. An unconscious cycle of conditioned reactions has been activated. This is not the time to try to do several tasks at once—doing so will only further overload your system.
Instead, stop, look, and listen: breathe in awareness of yourself in the present moment and connect with your senses. Instead of speeding up into a hectic frenzy, take a nice, deep, relaxing breath and slow down a little.
As you sense your breath going in and out through your nose and mouth, you are experiencing a moment of relief from your overactive thinking. You are breaking the cycle, and you are connecting with yourself, body, mind, and spirit.
Take on just one of your To Do's. Maybe stop the car and concentrate on your phone call. Or continue to drive and really focus on the scenery you pass.
You will be surprised how much better you'll feel. You'll think more clearly and actually get more done along with the joy of feeling fully present to yourself and the moment.
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About the author:
Dr. Adrianne Ahern is a sports performance psychologist and author of Snap Out of it Now! Her innovative tools, including neurofeedback, help people in all walks of life achieve better performance by identifying and overcoming mental obstacles. To learn more, visit http://www.AdrianneAhern.com Or, Email adrianne@snapoutofitnow.com
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Friends & Family
Preparing For a Successful School Year
Troy Parrish
Struggle with getting your boy through the school year last year? Find it difficult to keep track of the work he was to be doing or even knowing if he had work at all?
The ability of parents to stay in touch with the school work their children are doing (or not doing) can mean the difference between a successful school year and one that is fraught with the typical struggles over assignment completion and homework. What can you do to make this school year different?
If your experience is fairly typical, your son starts the school year off with a good attitude with every intent of doing well and keeping up with his work.
After all, he really doesn’t like failing at anything and doesn’t like all the hassle that he gets because of his school work. It is at the beginning of the school year that any structure you are going to use be established.
Because your child is going to be at the height of motivation, they are most likely to buy into the system that you create to help him succeed.
Selling him on the structure by pointing out that it will help him be more successful as well as avoid all the trouble he saw last year can increase motivation.
You really want to create a fairly structured schedule for dealing with school work. This usually involves work being completed at a particular time at a particular spot.
Typically, this works best shortly after returning home from school. A short break is acceptable, but longer breaks have a tendency to pull children away from the focus of school work and with children who have problems with this issue it can be particularly difficult to get them going again after a long break.
You can point out to your boy that after he completes the ½ hour to 1 hour of homework, the rest of his day is his to do with as he sees fit. If your child has more than that amount of homework routinely, check with the school as there is most likely other issues going on.
You want to establish some way in which you can evaluate the work your child is performing. Having them leave their work in a predetermined spot for you to check later works well.
Your ability to visually see the homework cuts out the need to track them down, have them track down their work or worse simply ask them if they did their work and then have to trust they are being honest when historically this has been a problem.
It is at this time that you can also evaluate the quality of their work. Making a child do homework over again really should be reserved for situation in which it is clear that little to no effort was made and they do not comprehend the work.
Making them correct every incorrect answer will only frustrate them, particularly if you are striving to change from a fair amount of noncompliance to willful completion of their schoolwork with acceptable quality.
You may need to create a system to regularly communicate with the teacher about your son’s school work. This will facilitate the tracking of assignments, making sure that you are aware of what your child needs to do and if that work is being turned into the teacher.
It is advisable that any system that you use be simple for your child to use and quick and easy for the teacher to use. The least amount of effort to use this system increases its likelihood for success.
More complex systems can offer many intricate benefits but if it requires too much from a child who is not highly motivated in school or too much of a very busy teacher, it will not be used.
Systems that can be varied from a high degree of accountability to allowing the child to be responsible for himself is ideal in that it can be adjusted according to need.
Finally, you will need to evaluate progress on a regular basis. Don’t wait until interims are presented or until you get some kind of notice from the school.
If you wait this long the problem may have already established a pattern that is resistant to change. Evaluation for very young children may need to be daily or every other day.
The older the child the longer the periods between evaluation but the idea is to keep motivation high and head off problems early. Don’t be afraid to attach some incentive for success, giving it liberally early on can help to establish new, more productive patterns of behavior.
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